STAYING ALIVE: The Saints defense came up big again on a day the offense could only stay 8 points ahead of the Panthers. But the 18-10 victory keeps New Orleans' playoff hopes alive ahead of the season finale next week against the Atlanta Falcons.
HISPANIC POPULATION GROWS: Louisiana’s Hispanic community gained more members in the past 20 years than any other racial or ethnic group and accounts for essentially all of the state’s growth. And the epicenter of that growth has been in Jefferson Parish, as Ramon Antonio Vargas explores in the latest installment of our series on the demographic changes reflected in the most recent U.S. Census figures. Previous entries include the population growth on the north shore, the increasing diversity in the suburbs and the depopulation of the state's rural areas.
OMICRON SURGE CONTINUES: For the second week in a row, the Louisiana Department of Health released COVID-19 data on a Sunday, a signal of growing concern that the surge fueled by the omicron variantis a development to be taken seriously. And for the second week in a row, the number of people hospitalized with the virus has doubled over the course of seven days.
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